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- Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - ), "The Root of All Evil", Channel 4 UK, 2006
- Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)
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